There are continuing concerns that Montenegro’s Judicial Council, which chooses the country’s judges, could be politically influenced by the authorities, a rights group has warned.
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Officials from around the former Yugoslavia met in Bosnia and appealed for reconciliation in the region to prevent the possibility of future conflicts.
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Vukovar’s mayor Zeljko Sabo called for tolerance after being re-elected but campaigners vowed to keep fighting a plan to introduce Serbian as a second official language in the Croatian town.
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Macedonia’s Lustration Commission has targeted the former police minister Ljubmir Frckoski for allegedly ordering surveillance for ideological and political reasons.
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Serbian lustration legislation aimed at exposing past human rights violations has never been implemented and is due to expire soon, despite efforts by some lawmakers to extend it.
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The authorities in Skopje are ignoring and even concealing the rise in crimes inspired by ethnic and religious hatred, the Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights said.
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MPs and victims’ groups in Serb-led Republika Srpska are calling on its parliament to provide money to help overturn Bosnian Serb commander Novak Djukic’s conviction for shelling Tuzla in 1995.
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Campaigners for the RECOM reconciliation initiative said they had done all they could to promote a cross-regional truth committee and it was time for political leaders to act.
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A witness in the politically-charged trial of ethnic Albanians accused of killing five ethnic Macedonians near Skopje said that one defendant was nowhere near the crime scene.
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The Montenegrin government has published a draft action plan to increase judicial independence and answer EU concerns about politicisation of the country’s legal system.
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The extradition from Kosovo of two ethnic Albanians wanted in Macedonia for the killing of five people near Skopje may take a year, the lawyer for the suspects said.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Representative Valentin Inzko has expressed concern about repeated statements from Bosnian Serb politicians advocating the dissolution of the state.
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Work on constitutional changes intended to increase judicial independence and bring EU accession closer is being hampered by post-election disputes, a top lawmaker said.
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An unknown perpetrator threw a Molotov cocktail at the Serbian consulate in the coastal city of Rijeka, but failed to inflict any damage.
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A new human rights report on Macedonia has brought hope for relatives of people who’ve been missing since the armed conflict between government forces and rebels in 2001.
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Timeline - Transitional Justice in Serbia
Key dates and events in transitional justice in Serbia.